Blast Furnace 5's final week

Works Manager for Coke, Sinter and Iron, Dean Cartwright, gives a history of Port Talbot's Blast Furnace 5, and runs us through the winding down process that will bring BF5's operations to a halt.

[@cliveclerkenville2637]

I worked on 1/2/3 furnaces around 1970. Amazing stuff. All gone now.

[@AluminumOxide]

Even though Electric Arc Furnaces are so high tech these days, its easy to forget they're not a modern invention. The EAF was invented in 1889 and first used in steelmaking in 1932, but it didnt become popular until 1966. Today, EAF's produce 70% of the world's steel.

[@bashmentist]

Tim's bonus must be immense.

[@PaulReynolds-v7n]

the blast furnace makes iron from ore you can.t make steel from iron in a electric arc if you can please explain ?

[@TataSteelUK]

Hi Paul, we will no longer be creating molten iron from imported iron ore in our blast furnaces then converting that into steel. Instead, we will be recycling the abundance of steel scrap we have in the UK in our new electric arc furnace. One of the wonderful things about steel is it can be infinitely recycled without losing its properties. So we will no longer be reliant on other countries for the raw materials going into our furnace, we will also be drastically reducing our carbon footprint.

[@boromickfc]

The salamander tap

[@gregorythompson2251]

Yet they just opened a brand new mill in Africa using blast furnace

[@hadrianbird2645]

Temps get the dangerous jobs in the blast, and the least pay.

[@fatwalletboy2]

I dont believe Tata got their £500m